IraqGovernment-2024 https://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/iraq/iraq_government.html SOURCE:2024CIA WORLD FACTBOOK GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES Country name conventional long form:Republic of Iraq conventional short form:Iraq local long form:Jumhuriyat al-Iraq/Komar-i Eraq ...
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BAGHDAD, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi government said Friday that the country hopes for a new form of cooperation with the United Nations after ending the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The government spokesman Basim al-Awadi told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the coo...
BAGHDAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iraq on Tuesday condemned Iran's missile attack on the city of Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, considering it an "aggression" against the country's sovereignty and "abuse to the good neighborliness." The Iraqi government "expre...
"Well, I think we have to see. I mean, I still think it's too early to tell," Odierno said. "If you look in United States history, democracy was pretty ugly in the beginning. This is a very difficult form of government. But I think they really want it." ...
GE Vernova has also been working with regional and international institutions to facilitate financing to help the Government of Iraq execute these and other projects. Since 2016, GE Vernova has helped the country secure $2 billion in financing for projects in the energy sector, leveraging its glo...
Iraq's UN representative Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom said his country's different political blocs are currently working to overcome obstacles to form a government. Iraq has set up a development plan for the next several years to reduce rates of poverty and unemployment in line with the 2030 ...
Iran has used the war against ISIS as a pretext to embedIRGCofficials in Iraq and increase support for Shi’a militant groupsloyal to Ayatollah Khamenei. In conjunction with the Iraqi government, Soleimani helped stand up thePopular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella organization of predominant...
Salim al-Juburi called for political unity and said "the main aim (of the mosque attack) is to foil all the efforts that have been made to form a government". "All the political entities condemned the crime, all of them expressed their anger about what happened," he said in televi...
But al-Sadr's pro-Iranian rivals want to form a consensus government to include all political blocs, as was the situation in the successive governments after 2003. The Iraqi parliament has set March 26 as the date for a new parliament session to elect the president. Some 40 candidates, incl...